Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Digital pathology technologies, already popular in Europe, are primed for growth in the U.S., according to a report from KLAS research.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

By Katie Gu. An April 2021 data privacy bill sponsored by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has taken on new urgency in the post- Roe Digital Age. The bipartisan bill, The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, would close the current legal loophole through which the FBI, Department of Homeland Security , Department of Defense , Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement , and the Internal Revenue Service , have repeatedly purchased Americans’ personal and consumer information from

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A closed deal would be a major setback for the DOJ, which lost another merger case this year, antitrust legal experts told Healthcare Dive.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As we continue to shift healthcare into a more digital world, it’s important to have a reliable Cloud to back up and store all of the data and digital solutions. But how do you know which Cloud is the right one for your organization? eClinicalWorks (eCW) went through this process a couple of years ago and is so pleased with their decision to go with Microsoft Cloud that they are investing over $100 million in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Positive results from a late-stage clinical trial of the drug, called lecanemab, were a surprising success for a field used to setbacks. But doctors and researchers point out that the reported benefit appears relatively modest.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This week I had a chance to stop by the S tericycle Communication Solutions user event they called “The Art of Patient Engagement.” I live tweeted the kickoff keynote of the event with Jared Johnson, Founder of the Shift.health content network and author of the Marketing Forward book he just published. Here are some of the key insights and perspectives he shared with the audience.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Physicians Business Office (PBO), a Parkersburg, WV-based provider of medical practice management and administrative services, has recently disclosed a security incident that occurred in April 2022. PBO detected unusual activity within its network and took immediate steps to isolate the affected systems and prevent further unauthorized access. A third-party computer forensics company was engaged to determine the nature and scope of the breach and assist with the incident response.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A J.D. Power study indicates telehealth is the preferred method among consumers for receiving certain types of medical care.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

What You Should Know: – Epicore Biosystems, a digital health company developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables to provide real-time personalized hydration insights for performance and safety, today announced a new collaboration with 3M’s Health Care Business, a manufacturer and distributor of medical products and solutions, and Innovize Inc.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Magellan Health has agreed to settle a class action data breach lawsuit and will create a $1.43 million fund to cover claims from patients affected by the breach. The lawsuit – Dearing v. Magellan Health Inc. et al. – was filed in the Arizona Superior Court against Magellan Health Inc. and Magellan RX Management, LLC on behalf of patients whose protected health information was exposed in a May 2019 phishing attack.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Thinking about the social determinants of prescription drugs, how people take medicines in real life in my latest post in Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. I had one of those special lightbulb moments when listening to Mauricio Gonzalez-Arias, M.D. of NYC Health + Hospitals and Suvida Healthcare discussing medication adherence and what prevents us from taking our meds as prescribed.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This case study explores how Wolters Kluwer’s clinical decision support system, UpToDate, is being used by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust to rebuild training and focus on health equalities.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Komodo Health appointed Lauren Stahl as vice president and head of sales, while Woebot Health and Cue Health hired chief commercial officers.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to be the first trust to go live with an integrated EPR-social prescribing solution.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Also, a new research centre at the University of Melbourne will use AI to advance breast cancer screening.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This Digital Health News industry roundup includes the launch of a global AI network to tackle heart health inequalities and news from WiFi SPARK.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Also, Point Robotics from Taiwan has received a US FDA 510(k) clearance for its surgical robot system.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Four years after launch, the NHS App has hit 30 million sign ups and registered nearly 450,000 new organ donation decisions.

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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Birmingham Based Company Secures Funding from Arizona -based PE. Today, XpertDox, LLC. , a software company specializing in autonomous medical coding powered by artificial intelligence, announced the closing of their latest round of funding. XpertDox’s XpertCoding solution harnesses the power of artificial intelligence in order to autonomously code medical claims faster, more accurately, and cheaper than traditional manual processes.

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The US Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment that will recover $9.3 million in back wages and liquidated damages for 1,756 employees of a Pennsylvania healthcare staffing company that misclassified them and willfully denied them their overtime pay. The judgment requires the staffing company to pay $4,650,000 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages, and a civil money penalty of $700,000, for the willful nature of its violations.

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Becker's Health IT

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Magellan Health will pay $1.43 million to settle a lawsuit over a May 2019 phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information of 273,000 patients, Top Class Action reported Sept. 28.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

What You Should Know: – Behavioral health company, Grow Therapy secures $75 million in series B funding to expand insurance coverage including Medicare and Medicaid in all 50 states. – This round of funding was led by TCV , co-led by Transformation Capital , with support from existing backers SignalFire and SVB. Medicare/Medicaid Coverage Expansion.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Business and financial news from NextGen Healthcare, Health Catalyst Hallmark Health Care Solutions, Veradigm, MobileSmith Health, Zócalo Health, Document Storage Systems Inc., HGS Healthcare, NVIDIA, VAST Data, Qventus, Luna, Health Catalyst, and more. The post Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – September 29, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As we emerge from a public health crisis that magnified and exacerbated health disparities, the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) has reached a pivotal moment. In both social and healthcare, the pressure is mounting to address key drivers of health and amplify value-based care models. . To succeed, these models need to be effective and measurable as we work to build trust with all stakeholders (e.g., at-risk individuals, health plan members, community partners).

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Now on Demand Tell Me Where IT Hurts episode with host Dr. Jay Anders and his guest Mari Savickis, Vice President of Public Policy for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) to discuss patient identification, and why it remains a thorny issue. The post The Future of Patient Identity and Public Policy appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

By Michael L. Smith, R.R.T., J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law For several years, many healthcare professionals have been required to pass a Level II background check in order to work in most Florida healthcare facilities licensed by the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Many healthcare professionals are also required [.].

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Health IT product news from FIGmd, MRO, Butterfly Network, VSee, Summus, Reveleer, Mindray North America, Ordr, Relatient, Nextech, Carta Healthcare, Royal Philips, Siemens Healthineers, NextGen Healthcare, 3M Health Information Systems, Gainwell Technologies, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company and more. The post Health IT Product News Report September 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Dot Compliance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Pharmaceutical Quality Management System (QMS) is a collection of activities and processes that improve the quality of the pharmaceutical product. It focuses on specific persons and processes involved in the production of goods and stops them from straying from quality standards like FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ISO and ICH Q10. For instance, data from research on the process validation of pharmaceuticals is used to confirm that the production of the drugs is done in accordance with the quality steps

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KFF

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This fact sheet provides an overview of the history of the Kemp-Kasten amendment, which states that no U.S. funds may be made available to “any organization or program which, as determined by the president of the United States, supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization,” and examines its current application.

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Healthicity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The explosion of telehealth since 2020 means auditors, compliance managers, and regulators are scrambling.

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